This section shows how a thyroid imbalance completely impacted my life. By viewing this pictoral journal, you can see how I looked before I developed thyroid problems, and then how I looked after developing hypothyroidism. Finally, you can see how I was transformed by putting this hormone back into balance.


I am including a few examples of my mother, to show how she has benefitted from adding T3 to her thyroid medication. I didn't have many full body shots of her before she began T3, because she did not like getting photographed at that weight. Now that she has lost over 40 pounds in the past year by simply switching her medication, she's not so camera shy!

BEFORE: Me way before developing thyroid problems!

BEFORE: Me at 15, approximately 8 years before I began exhibiting symptoms of hypothyroidism

Here I am at 6 Months Pregnant, October 2005

DURING: Here I am in the midst of suffering from symptoms of hypothyroidism in 2000

DURING: My doctors refused to consider that I had a problem, even though my thyroid gland was visibly swollen!

DURING: Weight started accumulating in my stomach area, as you can see here!

DURING: Me with some law school chums in 1998. Look at all the puffiness around my face! [I'm on the left]

AFTER: Here I am with some of the producers for a TV show I was featured in, on Women's Entertainment Television, Fall of 2003.

AFTER: Starting thyroid medication made me feel like a new person - just ask my husband!

AFTER: I can smile easily now, because my weight responds to diet & exercise

AFTER MEDICATION

AFTER: Me and my best friend, Priscilla

AFTER: Me and my husband, November of 2002

MOM & ME BEFORE [these shots were taken in early 1999]

MOM & ME BEFORE [we look an awful lot alike here, don't we?]

MOM AFTER ADEQUATE MEDICATION [she lost over 40 pounds!]

MOM AFTER ADEQUATE MEDICATION [she's not afraid to get photographed lately, as you can tell from this picture dated May, 2003]